---
title: "An Algorithmic Reflectance and Transmittance Model for Plant Tissue"
authors: ["Gladimir V.G. Baranoski", "Jon G. Rokne"]
year: 1997
venue: "Computer Graphics Forum"
arxiv: null
doi: "10.1111/1467-8659.00150"
source: "https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8659.00150"
topics: [translucent-materials]
seed_rank: 1322
seed_batch: "sss-translucent-2026-08-25"
reviewed: "2026-08-25"
pool: "graphics"
relevance_score: 8
lineage: translucent-materials
cites:
  - title: "Ein Beitrag zur Optik der Farbanstriche"
    url: "https://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~westin/pubs/kubelka.pdf"
    year: 1931
    arxiv: null
    doi: null
  - title: "PROSPECT: A model of leaf optical properties spectra"
    url: "https://doi.org/10.1016/0034-4257(90)90100-z"
    year: 1990
    arxiv: null
    doi: "10.1016/0034-4257(90)90100-z"
  - title: "Reflection from Layered Surfaces due to Subsurface Scattering"
    url: "https://doi.org/10.1145/166117.166139"
    year: 1993
    arxiv: null
    doi: "10.1145/166117.166139"
see:
  - "1260-ein-beitrag-zur-optik-der-farbanstriche"
  - "1324-prospect-a-model-of-leaf-optical-properties-spectra"
  - "1247-reflection-from-layered-surfaces-due-to-subsurface-scattering"
---

# An Algorithmic Reflectance and Transmittance Model for Plant Tissue

## One-sentence takeaway

Baranoski CGF 1997: ABM, the graphics leaf material from tissue anatomy.

## Problem

Predecessor chain Hanrahan-Krueger; Jacquemoud PROSPECT; Kubelka-Munk. This paper's job: Baranoski CGF 1997: ABM, the graphics leaf material from tissue anatomy.

## Design

Baranoski CGF 1997: ABM, the graphics leaf material from tissue anatomy. Lineage: Hanrahan-Krueger; Jacquemoud PROSPECT; Kubelka-Munk.

## Evidence

Computer Graphics Forum 1997. DOI `10.1111/1467-8659.00150`. Baranoski CGF 1997: ABM, the graphics leaf material from tissue anatomy.

## Limitations

Read the cited predecessors before treating this as a drop-in Anoptic shader. Do not claim the library already implements it.

## Implications for Broadside

Leaves and plant tissue are thin translucent slabs — the same missing SSS/BTDF stack as skin. Anoptic's mesh renderer has no foliage translucency yet. Do not claim they already have SSS.

## Bottom line

Mint this 1997 Computer Graphics Forum paper. Baranoski CGF 1997: ABM, the graphics leaf material from tissue anatomy.

## Links

- DOI: [10.1111/1467-8659.00150](https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8659.00150)